 | Clandestine by James Ellroy
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £0.01 Perhaps the story is slightly predictable and the ending a bit too feel good; Doesn't matter though because the sense of place and time and the pace of narrative is excellent.
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 | A Voyage To Arcturus (Fantasy Masterworks) by David Lindsay
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.45 A highly unusual, and, I suspect, underrated book. Not much in the way of plot, but fantastically written and incredibly imaginative.
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 | The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Couldn't get into it initially - the story seemed to drag on and the writing seemed too objective. However, the second half blossomed both in terms of prose and plot. Quite affecting too. Sigh.
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 | Voice of our Shadow (Fantasy Masterworks) by Jonathan Carroll
Buy used from: £1.68 A fairly typical tale about the past coming back to (literally) haunt the protagonist with a very cheesey and disappointing ending. Despite these grievences it was pretty captivating stuff, spooky in
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 | All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 I loved this; highly readable with the right amounts of action and emotional subtlety so as to balance the book. Super.
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 | Exquisite Corpse by Robert Irwin
Buy used from: £0.08 Better than Brite's book of the same name; a highly engrossing journey through the art circles of 1920's London and Europe.
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 | In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £2.32 I'm not overly convinced by Auster : whilst this is based on an interesting premise, he doesn't really exhibit any great writing here. I found the plot quite depressing too, but I guess that's down to
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastically dark and unsettling imagery abounds throughout, although the book is let down by the light-weight ending. Up there with Hubert Selby JR's 'The Demon' for most depressing book ever
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 | My Brother's Gun by Ray Loriga
Buy used from: £2.88 A kind of 'The Outsider' for the MTV generation. I know that sounds really bad but it was quite enjoyable. Try Trocchi's 'Young Adam' for your fix of existential anti-heroes if you like them dark.
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 | Amaryllis Night and Day by Russell Hoban
Buy used from: £0.01 Ever wondered what it would be like to enter the dreams of a loved one? Me neither. Still, the notion is explored brilliantly here, and the novel is by turns comically uplifting and terminally melanc
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